Worth Knowing, Probably Not Quite Threadworthy, 11/16

[SVPete]

Surprise! Here's Where Your Taxes to Help 'Homeless People' Actually Go

https://pjmedia.com/victoria-taft/2025/11/16/surprise-heres-where-taxes-to-help-the-homeless-actually-went-n4946050

The usual faith-based groups — the Salvation Army, St. Vincent de Paul, Rescue Missions — struggled to help individuals who fell on hard times get off the streets. These programs have long been the most successful: they require sobriety and bring God into the lives of people in desperate need. But in 2013, federal funding launched a drive to "End Homelessness in Ten Years," and with it came grant money and unchecked spending.

Suddenly, every city had a program. And suddenly anti-capitalist extremists got their hands on that money.

Portland, Seattle, San Francisco, San Diego,  and L.A. all bought into the plan and the money flowed. In 2016, many states, including California, went with "housing first" models — throwing out sobriety requirements to get better — and it's now worse than ever.

These activists have created a kind of fraudulent nobility that comes with cooping up addicts in apartments and calling it "housing justice."
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Discovery Institute and the Capital Research Center have released their dual report on how extremist groups have used homeless funding for their own political aims. It's called "INFILTRATED: The Ideological Capture of Homeless Advocacy."

"Using financial data, legal records, and original research, the report uncovers a vast network of homelessness advocates that spend billions in taxpayer dollars and philanthropic grants on everything but obvious solutions," the report states.  Indeed, the obvious issues leading to homelessness, namely drug addictions and mental health problems, aren't addressed in the massive expenditures by these organizations and, in effect, worsen the homeless problem even more.